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外延石墨烯的衬底诱导带隙开放

Substrate-induced band gap opening in epitaxial graphene

S. Y. Zhou, G. -H. Gweon, A. V. Fedorov, P. N. First, W. A. de Heer, D. -H. Lee, F. Guinea, A. H. Castro Neto, A. Lanzara

摘要:

石墨烯作为下一代电子器件的主体材料显示出巨大的应用潜力。然而,尽管石墨烯具有令人感兴趣的性质,但其作为电子材料的最大障碍之一是其在电子光谱中缺乏能隙。例如,这阻止了石墨烯在制造晶体管中的使用。尽管已经提出了几种建议来打开石墨烯电子光谱的缺口,但它们都需要石墨烯层的复杂工程。在这里,我们表明,当石墨烯在SiC衬底上外延生长时,产生约0.26的间隙。该间隙随着样品厚度的增加而减小,并且当层数超过四层时最终接近于零。我们提出,这个差距的起源是由于石墨烯衬底相互作用的亚晶格对称性的破坏。我们相信我们的研究结果突出了石墨烯带隙工程的一个有前途的方向。

英文摘要:

Graphene has shown great application potentials as the host material for next generation electronic devices. However, despite its intriguing properties, one of the biggest hurdles for graphene to be useful as an electronic material is its lacking of an energy gap in the electronic spectra. This, for example, prevents the use of graphene in making transistors. Although several proposals have been made to open a gap in graphene's electronic spectra, they all require complex engineering of the graphene layer. Here we show that when graphene is epitaxially grown on the SiC substrate, a gap of ~ 0.26 is produced. This gap decreases as the sample thickness increases and eventually approaches zero when the number of layers exceeds four. We propose that the origin of this gap is the breaking of sublattice symmetry owing to the graphene-substrate interaction. We believe our results highlight a promising direction for band gap engineering of graphene.

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